From The American Scholar, Jim Hinch on how Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power — what happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral shows why. Tiffany Stanley interviews Molly Worthen on the intellectual civil war within Evangelicalism. What kind of God? Annelin Eriksen and Ruy Blanes reviewWhen God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God by Tanya Luhrmann. Who wants a Christian America? Jay Livingston looks at the results of a recent YouGov survey. New Life after the fall of Ted Haggard: Patton Dodd on how the megachurch healed — by remembering what it means to be the local church. The Prophet: Meet Dave Ramsey, the most important personal finance guru in America, as millions of people follow his biblically inspired advice (and more). From Alternet, the gospel of selfishness in American Christianity: Amanda Marcotte on how the philosophers of selfishness came to use Christianity as their cover story; meet the Right-wing Christian companies trying to impose their values on their workers; and CJ Werleman on how Rev. Billy Graham taught the Republican Party to sacrifice the poor on the altar of big-business, and on why the Christian Right believes it has once-in-a-decade chance to impose its radical worldview on America. Steven Mazie on John Locke, President Bush and the Jesus pushers. Hollis Phelps on Frank Schaefer, Phil Robertson and the myth of Christian unity. Philip Yancey on hip Christian books: Sampling a new genre. Erin S. Rodenbiker on Kanye West, evangelist of the 21st century.

Benjamin I. Sachs (Harvard): The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining. Sympathy for the Devil: What’s interesting is that while Nietzsche spectacularly fell from “grace” following the catastrophic appropriation of his philosophy by Hitler, thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand is enjoying something of a renaissance as the acid tongued, endlessly sober toast of America’s Tea Party. Sure, he’s not quite Edward Snowden when it comes to the international importance of his stash, but what Guccifer lacks in gravitas, he makes up for in bold-faced quantity. Puerto Rico’s population loss is getting a flood of attention from mainland media outlets. The CIA’s lawyer: Steve Coll reviewsCompany Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA by John Rizzo. Libertarians are pushing us over a cliff: Alex Halperin interviews Thom Hartmann, author of The Crash of 2016. Though Pastor Robert Jeffress insists that he doesn't think that President Obama is the Antichrist, he does make the assertion that Obama's policies are opening the door for the Antichrist in his newest book, Perfect Ending. Reid Cherlin on the HuffPo-ization of the Right: Come for the Obama bashing, stay for the busty slideshows and viral videos. Here’s the challenge the White House faces in telling Obamacare success stories: Try to picture a headline that says, “Obamacare does what it’s supposed to do”. Ta-Nehisi Coates on what it means to be a public intellectual. TEDx speaker Benjamin Bratton gives priceless talk about how TED Talks are worthless.